“Super Smooth” milk stout keeps its promise as tidy coffee niche brings caramel latte, cappuccino and espresso overtones to the fore alongside creamy bourbon chocolate malting. Its soothing milk chocolate-y center gains tertiary peanut butter, hazelnut and pecan illusions as well as sugary vanilla nuances.
KINDRED SPIRIT SMELLS LIKE FAN SPIRIT BALTIC PORTER
TRINITY CHILLY WATER PORTER
On tap at Growlers To Go – Duck, unique Baltic Porter utilizes dry Mexican Couchalate bark to contrast brown-sugared spicing (cumin-fennel-cardamom) and vitalize brown chocolate, milked coffee and sweet cocoa. A sweeter, spicier, creamier Baltic version.
1718 BRUNCH COFFEE KOLSCH
On tap at Buffalo City Jug Shop, enjoyable hybridized kolsch provides prominent roasted coffee serenity for stylish lemon-soured pilsner malting and lightly vinous white grape snip. Perfect summertime breakfast eye-opener retains lovely lemon-wedged espresso coffee thrust.
MOMAC SEA COW STOUT
On tap at Mix It Up – Virginia Beach, bittersweet black chocolate milkiness picks up sweet toffee influence for efficient moderate-medium body.
RAILHOUSE KA-BAR BROWN ALE
On tap at Growlers To Go – Duck, chicory-roasted chocolate malting gains fudgy toffee snip and distant hop-roasted nuttiness. Mild cola-pecan-hazelnut restraint hits the mocha finish.
GIZMO FAKE NEWS NEW ENGLAND IPA
On tap at Growlers To Go – Duck, straightforward amber-hazed New England-styled IPA retains smooth tropical fruiting and light grassy hop bittering. Brisk orange-peeled peach, grapefruit, mango and tangerine tang picks up piney bite. A tad underwhelming, but easygoing and safe.
WICKED WEED LIEUTENANT DANK INDIA PALE ALE
“Dank” pine resin drapes floral-spiced yellow grapefruit bittering and mild orange peel tang. Sharp citrus hop bite lingers as sour mango-guava tartness stays safely beneath.
VIRGINIA HIGH HEAT INDIA PALE ALE
Simply smooth streamlined pleasure brings lemony grapefruit tang to light resinous pining and mild oats-flaked base. Brisk Lemondrop and Galaxy hops inform subsidiary mandarin orange, passionfruit, guava and papaya tropicalia, heightening its sassy sweet ‘n sour fruitiness.
CAROLINA WIGGO! INDIA PALE ALE
One of four flagships brews, copper-bronzed medium-full body proves richer, creamier, ‘maltier’ and darker than typical IPA fare. Brown apple, bosc pear, tangerine and grilled mango fruiting heads to the fore alongside red ale-like toasted caramel spicing, overriding usual grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering as well as mild piney hop musk.

NEW BELGIUM MURAL AGUA FRESCA
On tap at Fishheads – Nags Head, blanched SweeTarts candy likeness gains sour gose-like salinity to contrast lemon shandy-like soda pop sweetness of underwhelming collaboration with Mexico’s Cerveceria Primus. Limey strawberry-watermelon Jolly Rancher illusions stay distant alongside wispy hibiscus and agave adjuncts. Murkily chalked fruiting remains nebulous.
NEW BELGIUM HONEY ORANGE TRIPEL
Sweet honey creaming drapes Seville orange peel tang, herbal-spiced white peppering and musty Belgian yeast cellar funk of respectable hybridized tripel. In the midst, candied pineapple, peach, tangerine and tangelo fruiting engages honeyed orange theme.